My Droid is a Brick and hates me

So this is the second phone to do it to me in the 10 days I have owned a Droid. After talking for a little over a hour while the phone is on the charger. I end the call, and it goes to the lock screen. The screen quits working. I get no responce to any touch.
1) I take the battery out it will reboot and the screen still won't work.
2) Safe mode gives me same result (Menu and power)
3) Even if I hard boot and format the drive(holding X and the power), I get the new phone set-up screen, but doesn't work.

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So this is the second phone to do it to me in the 10 days I have owned a Droid. After talking for a little over a hour while the phone is on the charger. I end the call, and it goes to the lock screen. The screen quits working. I get no responce to any touch.
1) I take the battery out it will reboot and the screen still won't work.
2) Safe mode gives me same result (Menu and power)
3) Even if I hard boot and format the drive(holding X and the power), I get the new phone set-up screen, but doesn't work.

Has anyone else ever heard or had this problem?

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Did you try just pushing the power button to see if the screen came back up?

Rescue Squad

Have you downloaded any apps you think might be the cause and have you rooted your phone?

I'd think an app that did this would generate lots of noise here in the forum and elsewhere so I suspect you just got a bum phone. 3rd time is the charm, bring it back and get another one.

The sequence of events is exactly the same for both phones? You talk on it for over an hour while it is charging and it is dead? I haven't heard of this. I would think if that was a known issue Verizon would know it was and tell you.

Have you downloaded any apps you think might be the cause and have you rooted your phone?

I'd think an app that did this would generate lots of noise here in the forum and elsewhere so I suspect you just got a bum phone. 3rd time is the charm, bring it back and get another one.

The sequence of events is exactly the same for both phones? You talk on it for over an hour while it is charging and it is dead? I haven't heard of this. I would think if that was a known issue Verizon would know it was and tell you.

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The phone beeped one time that it had a low battery. It was low, but not dead.

Rescue Squad

Have you downloaded any apps you think might be the cause and have you rooted your phone?

I'd think an app that did this would generate lots of noise here in the forum and elsewhere so I suspect you just got a bum phone. 3rd time is the charm, bring it back and get another one.

The sequence of events is exactly the same for both phones? You talk on it for over an hour while it is charging and it is dead? I haven't heard of this. I would think if that was a known issue Verizon would know it was and tell you.

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The phone beeped one time that it had a low battery. It was low, but not dead.

Have you downloaded any apps you think might be the cause and have you rooted your phone?

I'd think an app that did this would generate lots of noise here in the forum and elsewhere so I suspect you just got a bum phone. 3rd time is the charm, bring it back and get another one.

The sequence of events is exactly the same for both phones? You talk on it for over an hour while it is charging and it is dead? I haven't heard of this. I would think if that was a known issue Verizon would know it was and tell you.

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The phone beeped one time that it had a low battery. It was low, but not dead.

Rescue Squad

Lookout has caused it own share of problems from FC's to reboots to extreme sluggishness. It is a good program, but does not work on everyone's phone. Try taking it out and see if the problem goes away. If that doesn't do it, go to the next app and then the next until you find the culprit.